Pedro Armendáriz
Born: 1912-05-09 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1963-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Filmography
2024
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
1963
- From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
1962
- El tejedor de milagros as Señor Cura
- My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- Los valientes no mueren
1961
- My Son, the Hero as General
- Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
1960
- Los desarraigados
- Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
- El impostor
- Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
1959
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- Yo pecador
- The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
- Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- El zarco
- The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- I'm flying low
- Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- Café Colón
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
- This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
1957
- Manuela as Mario Constanza
- This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- La mujer que no tuvo infancia
- Men and Wolves as Giovanni
1956
- The Conqueror as Jamuga
- Diane as King Francis I
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
- The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
1955
- Fortune carrée as Igricheff
- The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
- Native Drums
1954
- Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
- Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- Mulata as Martín
- Reto a la vida
1953
- The Brute as Pedro
- The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
- Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
1952
- Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- Meat in Prison as Pablo González
- Los tres alegres compadres
1951
- Tierra baja as Manelic
- Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- Ella y Yo as Pedro Muñóz
- Weddings of fire
- Por querer a una mujer
1950
- The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
- By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- Pancho Villa vuelve
1949
- La malquerida as Esteban
- Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- El abandonado
- El charro y la dama
- We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
1948
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Juan Charrasqueado
- Maclovia as José María
- En la Hacienda de la Flor
1947
- The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- Albur de amor
- The Pearl as Quino
- La casa colorada
1946
- Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- Rayando el sol
1945
- The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
- Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
- Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
- El capitán Malacara
1944
1943
- Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- Konga Roja as Federico Robles
- Another Dawn as Octavio
- Tierra De Pasiones
1942
- Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
- Soy puro mexicano
- Passion Island as El Toro
- Del rancho a la capital
- Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
1941
- Ni sangre ni arena as Frank
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
- El secreto del sacerdote
1940
- Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
- El jefe máximo
- Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- El charro Negro as Ramón
- Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
1938
- Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- El indio